From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...a state encompassed by the southern gospel tradition signals my interest in exploring ways that large-scale changes in conceptions of religion, geographical identity, and social status play out and are...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...popularity came and went with an alarming ease following the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. In the heady days following Henry...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
Review Although scholars of the African diaspora have long acknowledged the persistence of African cultural forms within the musical, material, and linguistic cultures of African Americans in the United States,...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...obsessions, throughout his work. But more than that, it gave me the opportunity to see how he changed from book to book. Wrong. Courtesy of The University of Pittsburgh Press....
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...black republic might hold for the nearly four million people held in chattel bondage in the United States. The contention that "the fear of a revolt—or revolution—being mounted by the...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...more substantial narrative of events, see Melissa Fay Greene, The Temple Bombing (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996). Within fifteen minutes of the blast, staff at United Press International received a call...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...persistence in traditional farming practices within or despite culture change.14B. Orlove and S. Brush, "Anthropology and the conservation of biodiversity," Annual Review of Anthropology 25 (1996), 329-352. In Heirloom Seeds...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...larger changes in southeastern Native polities between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Beck's work complicates James Merrell’s monumental 1989 text on Catawba history, The Indians' New World.1James H. Merrell, The...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Tinney, in turn, married Thomas W. Dyson (who previously served in the Civil War in Unit 1, First United States Colored Infantry) on March 11, 1867. The couple had at...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...of their garden. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Changes in housing structures: My photos of buildings are emblematic of the change that's occurred from the days when I regularly stumbled upon intact...